The gender supervision that boys are subjected to is a serious social problem that is poorly covered in cinema. Young Ella Fields in her work “Stereo” says the imposition of gender attitudes decisive “no!”
I must say that the technique of “imagining a world where men and women have switched places” was often used before, but usually the question of the servitude of men in clothes and hobbies faded into the background. Rather, this technique is used to protest against sexism against women, to show how terrible it would be for men to live in a mirror world. Stereo’s main theme is different, although the phrase that men in the mirror world are sent to the kitchen, in the short film, also glimpses. But in our world, everything is interconnected. You can’t mirror one side and miss the other. Ella Fields is just trying not to miss anything.
And interestingly, we live in a world where you have to use this technique to protest against the coercion of boys to wear certain clothes. A girl tearfully asking her mother to let her wear a dress, believe me. This girl means gender-nonconforming boys from the real world. Are there any films about boys who want to wear dresses? And they exist, and parents do not think about how they traumatize them, saying that “this is not for boys.” That by suppressing in them natural desires that do no harm to anyone, anger and aggression are nurtured in them, the desire to compensate for this.
Very nice and useful short film.